Narratively: The Fox Sisters

by Ada CalhounAugust 31, 2015

Narratively published this story I wrote about the Fox Sisters, who invented American Spiritualism in 1848. While researching, I spent some time in Rochester, where I visited the old foundation of the family’s home, now a holy site for Spiritualists, and met super-helpful historian Chris Davis of the Newark-Arcadia Historical Society. There’s going to be a Fox Sisters movie based on a 1936 New Yorker story. Meanwhile, below is a Fox Sisters bibliography I put together. Go here to read the full story.

Kane, Elisha Kent, and Margaret Fox. The Love-Life of Dr. Kane: Containing the Correspondence, and a History of the Acquaintance, Engagement, and Secret Marriage Between Elisha K. Kane and Margaret Fox. New York: Carleton, 1865.

Todd, Thomas Olman. Hydesville: The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism. Sunderland, England: The Keystone Press, 1905. [Incorporates Emma Hardinge Britten’s Modern American Spiritualism (1870) and Robert Dale Owen’s Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1860).]